George geer



G. SEER.

Match Safe.

No'. 102,676. Patented May 3, 1870.

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waited tatw j GEORGE cEER, CE MERDEN, CONNECTICUT, AssrCNCE To CHARLES PARKER, 0E SAME PLACE.

Lezwrslwmt No. 102,676, .dated May 3, 1870.

MATCH-SAFE.

lhe Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern a Be it known that I, GEORGE GEEK, of Meriden, in the county o f New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement 'in Match- Safe; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in Fig-ure 1, a front view;

Figure 2, a rear view; and in Figure 3, a section on line a: x.

This invention I'elates to aniinprovement in the manner .of seeming together the parts of a cast-metal match-safe.

Heretofore the box and back have been secured together by means of rivets, anexpensive operation, and liable t-o break the parts.

To overcome these difficulties is the object of my invention, which consists in forming ears upon the front edge of the box-part, and corresponding recesses in the rear, so that the ears on the front may, by slightly compressing the two sides, be sprung into the corresponding recesses in the rear, and thus secure the two 'parts together.

A is the back; here represented as a dat plate, and

the extreme of the two ears being slightly more than the extreme of the recesses.

Being cast of thin metal, the. two sides may bev slightly compressed, sufficientlyV to allow the .ears to pass into the recesses, and the reaction, after thecom` pression is removed, extends the twocars so as to loci( into the recesses, as seen in iig. 3;

By this construction all liability to break, as-in the` process of riveting,` is avoided, and the expense of putting the parts together is comparatively nothing.

I claim as my invention- In the construction of match-safes, forming the ears a upon one part and corresponding recesses d upon the other part, so that the two parts. may be secured together by the said ears and recesses, substantially in the manner set forth. y v

' `GEORGE GEER.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. MILES, OHAs. L. TAYLOR. 

